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THE GUARDIAN Tuesday December 14 1993 Weather 22 General outlook MOST parts will start dry, but rain in the far north-west will spread across much of Scotland, Northern Ireland and the far west of England and Wales in the morning. Some of the rain will be preceded by sleet or snow, especially on hills. The rain is expected to cross the rest of the UK during the afternoon, but the south-east should stay dry until after dark. The rain in the west will turn more showery later. Winds in all areas will strengthen from the south-west, becoming strong to gale.

London, SE England, Anglia, England: Sunny spells then cloudier. Rain after dark. Wind north moderate then south-west strong to gale. Max 5C (41F). Central Engiand, Midlands, Midlands, Channel Is, SW England: Cloud increasing.

Wet in afternoon and evening. Wind north-west light becoming southwest strong to gale. Max 5C (41F). Wales, Wales, NW England, Lake Dist, Isle of Man, Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen, SW Scotland, Glasgow, Central Highlands, Moray Firth, NE Scotland, Ireland: Wet and windy. Sleet on hills.

Wind southwest strong to gale. Max 6C (43F). Afternoon 35 35 25 (35 STORMY MODERATE 3 MODERATE: Central England, NE Engiand, Borders: Cloudy, with rain in afternoon. Rain will be preceded by sleet on hills. Wind southwest strong to gale.

Max 4C (39F). Argyll, NW Scotland: Wet and windy. Sleet or snow on hills at first. Showery later. Wind south-west strong to gale.

Max 6C (43F). Orkney, Shetland: Wet and windy. Wind south to south-west strong to gale. Max 4C (39F). Outlook for Wednesday and Thursday: Unsettled with blustery showers over most parts.

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Predictions are for tomorrow Woather information supplied by the Meteorological Office. Satellite Predictions by the Royal Greenwich Observatory. Air Quality information supplied by the Department of the Environment. Double trouble in the Philippines of Manila. 'Manny' was weakened to and sticky rather than hot and dry, Weatherwatch below typhoon strength by its brush with thunderstorms breaking out in with the islands, but carried on west- many places.

The hottest areas were THE Philippines suffered a dou- wards as a tropical storm, reaching in the eastern foothills of the Andes. ble whammy last week when the Vietnamese coast yesterday. In Brazil on Monday, Teresina two full-blown typhoons The antipodean summer has been a reached 37'C and Cuenca in Ecuador, crossed the centre of the group of bit mixed. Wellington in New 8000 feet up, reached On islands moving south-west into the Zealand had most of the month's Wednesday it was Paraguay's turn. South China seas.

Both typhoons average rainfall (88 mm) in one day Mariscal, whose average daily tembehaved similarly, strengthening on December 6, and Christchurch perature is reached dramatically just estimated before landfall around with 100 had three days solid rain. In The storm which brought high core winds at Australia the area from Brisbane winds to southern Britain on mph increasing to around 130 mph. south to Coff's Harbour had a wet two Tuesday (Sheerness had gusts to 100 'Lola' crossed near Manila on or three days with rainfall equal to mph) swept on eastwards December 5, giving over 500 mm of their usual month's average of 100 to its destructive in continuing rain in places. This is roughly as 150 mm. In Western Australia it was Holland and Ostende ways.

in had Vlissingen much as falls in south-east England dry and the Hammersley Ranges gusts to 80 mph, Lille in northern Belgium in a year. It was weakened by its sweltered on Sunday with Port encounter with the mountains but Hedland reaching 42.7"C and France had 105mph, and several stacontinued westwards into Vietnam Roebourne 42.6"C. Hottest of all was tions in Germany recorded gusts of and Cambodia, finally petering out in Gascoyne Junction, 100 miles east of over 100 mph Brocken hurrihad of showers over Thailand. Caernarvon, which reached 43.2 C. cane force winds with mean speeds of a burst 'Manny' followed it on December 9, Another hot area was central 76 mph and gusts to 107 mph.

taking a track about 100 miles south South America, though it was hot Crown Copyright 1016. Around Britain Report for the 24 hours ended 6pm yosterday Aberdeen Anglesey Aspatria Aviemore Belfast Birmingham Bognor Regis Bournemouth Bristol Buxton Cardiff Clacion Colwyn Bay Cromer Eastbourne Edinburgh Eskdalemur Exmouth Falmouth Folkestone Glasgow Guernsey Hastings Bay Hunstanton tsie of Man of Scilly Jersey Kinloss Leeds Lerwick Leuchars Littlehampton Liverpool London Manchester Margate Morecambe Newcastle Norwich Nottingham Around the world Reports for noon yesterady days reading, Sun Raia Temp Weather (day) 0.5 .09 -1 Bright Rain 0.2 Rain am .18 Snow am 1.1 .30 6 Showers pm .06 6 Rain 2.6 .30 Rain pm 1.5 .06 Showers pm 0.4 .20 Rain .37 Showers 0.4 .19 Showers 1.8 .16 Rain pm .21 Rain 20 Rain pm 1.2 .48 Showers pm Hail .38 Hail pm 0.7 .13 Showers pm 12 .14 Showers .37 Cloudy 2.7 .32 Sicet am 1.7 .23 0 Rain pm 1.2 .39 10 Showers am .15 7 6 Showers 0.5 .35 7 4 Rain am 20 .41 Showers 0.1 .06 Cloudy Showers Snow pm 0.1 .28 Rain am 2.2 .31 Showers pm .24 Rain am 4 .05 Rain pm 02 Rain 926888 6 no 6 6 6 4 Dull Rain Rain Rain Showers Sum Rain Temp Weather bra in (day) Penzanco .15 Gale Plymouth 0 04 .15 CO Showers Poole 19 .12 NE Rain pm Ross-on-Wyo .29 -N Rain Saunton Sands .19 00 Showers Scarborough .31 Showers Shanklin 2.0 .24 9 Rain pm Southport Dull Southsea 2.9 Cloudy Stornoway 0.8 .01 Showers pm Swanage 2 1 .34 Rain pm Teignmouth 1.7 15 Showers Tenby .29 Cloudy Tiroe 5 1 .07 Sunny Torquay 1.6 .43 Cloudy Tynemouth .58 Gale Ventnor 3.0 39 10 A Showers Weston-s-Mare Rain Weymouth 10 20 8 Rain pm not available Dial a forecast For a recorded regional forecast dial 0891 500 fahowed by the code for your area Greater London 401. Kent Surrey Sussex 402. Dorsel. Mants.

IcW 403, Devon, Cornwall 404; Wits, Avon. Somerset 405, Berks, Bucks. Oxon 406. Beds, Hers Essex 407. Norfolk, Suttolk, Cambs 408; S.

and Glamorgan, Gwent 409. Herelord. Worcs 410. Central. M.cands 411, 412 Lincs.

Humbersice 413; Oyted. Powys 414, Dales 417: NE Engiand 418, Cumbria. Lake District 419, SW Gwynedo, Clwyd 415, NW England 416, and Yorks. Yorks Scotland 42C, Central Scotland 421: Edin, Fife, Lothian. Borders 422.

Central Scotland 423. Grampian, Highlands 424: NW Scolland 425. Cantoness. Oraney. 426 Ireland 427.

Pout rate 48p per minulo, off- peak 36p Algiers Ni 63 Ajaccio 0u 15 59 Amsterdam 48 Athens 12 54 Bahrain 22 72 Barcelona 52 Belgrade 45 Berlin Sn 34 70 21 Biarntz 15 59 Bombay 30 B6 Bordeaux 54 34 Brussels 52 Budapest Sn 36 Airesf 32 90 Cairo 70 Calcutta 79 Cape Town 27 81 Carditi 9 48 Casablanca Th 21 'Chicago Cologne 48 Copenhagen 32 Cortu 55 Dublin Faro 15 59 Fiorence 37 Frankfurt Funchal Geneva Gibraitar Glasgow Helsinki Sn 23 Hong Kong 66 Innsbruck 39 Istanbul 0: 48 Jersey 10 50 Johannesburgs 75 Kingston 75 Larnaca 61 Las Paimas 12 Lisbon 52 Locarno London 10 50 Angeles 16 61 Luxembourg Madrid Majorca 16 Malaga Malta 63 18 Moscow Munich 52 Naples 57 Nassau 61 New Delhi 22 'New York Nice Oporto Oslo Paris Peking (Aus) 25 Prague Reykjavik Anodes 12 Rio de Jan Riyadh Rome Salzburg Seoul Singapore Stockholm Strasbourg 12 32 Tangier 21 Tel Aviv Tenente 21 Tokyo 15 Tunis 66 Valencia 59 Venice Vienna Warsaw FANS Zurich 10 Cloudy. Or Fair. Fg Fog. Had, Sunny Th Thunder, day's readings).